INCIDENTALLY: This should have been in last week's issue ” Mother's Day in the UK
Mum and Dad were watching football on TV when Mum said, "I'm tired, and it's getting late. I think I'll go to bed."
She went to the kitchen to make sandwiches for the next day's lunches. Rinsed out the popcorn bowls, took meat out of the freezer for supper the following evening, checked the cereal box levels, filled the sugar container, put spoons and bowls on the table and started the coffee pot for brewing the next morning. She then put some wet clothes in the dryer, put a load of clothes into the washer, ironed a shirt and secured a loose button. She picked up the game pieces left on the table, put the phone back on the charger and put the telephone book into the drawer. She watered the plants, emptied a wastebasket and hung up a towel to dry. She yawned and stretched and headed for the bedroom.
She then stopped by the desk and wrote a note to the teacher, counted out some cash for the field trip, and pulled a text book out from hiding under the chair. She signed a birthday card for a friend, addressed and stamped the envelope and wrote a quick note for the grocery store. She put both near her purse. Mum then washed her face with 3 in 1 cleanser, put on her Night Solution & age fighting moisturizer, brushed and flossed her Teeth and filed her nails.
Dad called out from the TV room, "I thought you were going upstairs."
”I'm on my way," she said. She put some water into the dog's dish and put the cat outside, then made sure the doors were locked and the patio light was on. She looked in on each of the kids and turned out their bedside lamps and TV's, hung up a shirt, threw some dirty socks into the hamper, and had a brief conversation with the one up still doing homework. In their bedroom, she set the alarm; laid out clothing for the next day, straightened up the shoe rack. She added three things to her six most important things to do list. ”I think that is it,” she said silently to herself.
About that time, Dad turned off the TV. ”Hard game that. It was a clear cut goal,” he announced to no one in particular. ”What have you been doing the last half hour. I”m tired!"
A woman”s work is never done! Don”t forget Mother”s Day next year!